Welcome to Year 2

Our Year 2 Team are:

Mrs Garratt is our year group leader teaching in 2G.

Miss Murray is our teacher in 2M.

Miss Webster, Miss Bate, Miss Buxton, Miss Danby & Miss Langton are our teaching assistants who will support teaching and learning across the year group.

P.E

Children will come to school in their PE kit on the days that they have PE. We have a PE uniform that all children are expected to wear on their PE Days. Please help us to encourage your children to follow our uniform rules. Children should not be wearing items of clothing that are visibly branded, they should be plain in colour. Kit can now be purchased via Parent Pay.

Indoor PE: This is on a Monday. Your child will need plain black or navy shorts and a plain white t-shirt. (Children can wear plain black/ navy jogging bottoms over their shorts to keep them warm throughout the school day).

Outdoor PE: This is on a Wednesday. Your child will need to wear trainers, as well as clothing suitable for the weather. This will be plain black or navy tracksuit bottoms or shorts, a plain white t-shirt, and a plain black or navy zip-up top or jumper.

If your child wears earrings which they cannot remove by themselves, they should remove them at home on PE days. Please speak to a member of the Y2 team if this is a problem.

Home Reading/ Bookbags

Reading regularly at home is paramount to your child’s development. Your child will need to bring their bookbag into school on a Wednesday for their reading record to be checked and for their book to be changed. Bookbags will be returned and sent home every Friday. 

N.B: If your child’s reading record is not signed or returned on time, then homework and books may not be able to be replaced until the following week. 

Maths Homework

For Maths, children will be bringing home a ‘Bingo’ sheet at the start of each half term with 9 activities to choose from. These activities involve a mixture of games, on-screen learning, verbal and paper-based tasks and link to our sticky knowledge objective for each half term, as well as some other key learning objectives.

Children will be rewarded in school for returning their sheet before the end of the half term with 3 in a row or a full house completed, along with a parental comment or evidence to show that they have done this. There may be QR codes on the sheet, which you can scan to get to a game or to a support video, or other supporting resources.

The aim of these activities is to allow children to practise key maths skills in a way which is fun, and with support from someone at home where possible, as this has been shown to be the most effective use of homework time.